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 School of Performing Arts in New York City. Class of 1963
Over the years, I've performed with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Jay and the Americans, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Latin, Big band and show band groups.
We have lived in Missouri and Buffalo, New York (where daughter #2 was born) before moving back to Brooklyn.
I'm the music director for a large private school in Orange Co. I have a grown, married daughter and a beautiful granddaughter who is 3.
www.performing-arts-hs.com /Years/1963.htm   (735 words)

  
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 Guardian | Anyone can be famous - but the price is high
For those who do not remember it, or have successfully expunged it from their memories, the series was based around the lives and ambitions of the students of the New York City High School for the Performing Arts.
The new series of the grandaddy of reality television shows starts on the same evening as the final episode of Friends (which stars former New York City High School for the Performing Arts student Jennifer Aniston), and Channel 4 claims that this is the year that Big Brother gets "evil".
As they prepare themselves for their first brush with fame and notoriety, the contestants of Big Brother would do well to remember that fame still costs, and the instant the camera light turns red is the moment you start paying.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4927122-103680,00.html   (1057 words)

  
 LaGuardia Arts
In 1936, New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia founded the High School of Music and Art in order to provide a facility where the most gifted and talented public school students of New York City could pursue their talents in art or music, while also completing a full academic program of instruction.
In 1948, the School of Performing Arts was created to provide training in performance skills to students who wished to prepare for professional careers in dance, music or drama.
Currently, LaGuardia Arts is one of the four specialized high schools in New York City, as established by the New York State Legislature in 1972.
www.laguardiahs.org /about/history.html   (402 words)

  
 New York Choreographic Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mitchell was trained at New York City's High School for the Performing Arts, where he was the first male student to win the coveted annual dance award, and the School of American Ballet.
Mitchell is a member of the Council of the National Endowment for the Arts and an Honorary Patron of the Market Theatre Foundation in South Africa.
In 1999, he was inducted into the Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga, New York.
www.nycballet.com /nyci/nyci_mitchellbio.html   (216 words)

  
 Vergi Rodriguez Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Since her very early years, growing up as a young Dominican girl in Queens, New York, she knew what she wanted, there was never a doubt; she wanted to be a performer.
Her performing prowess was immediately noticed, for Vergi was not only a fierce dancer, she was also a solid singer and actress.
Soon her path led to the world-renowned New York City High School of the Performing Arts, the same school made famous by the movie and television show, Fame.
www.vergirodriguez.com /bioeng.htm   (490 words)

  
 School of Performing Arts in New York City. Class of 1976
I take a tap class once a week and 1-2x's a year, my class performs for senior citizens at nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
My wife and children now reside in LA and I visit them at least once a year (sometimes twice a year) to celebrate their birthday.
In Singapore I am presently doing freelance work, performing jazz, Latin, pop, R and B and world music on piano and keyboards.
www.performing-arts-hs.com /Years/1976.htm   (1041 words)

  
 ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News
Rochester Phil Rakes In The Cash Upstate New York's Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has set an in-house fundraising record for the second year in a row, taking in nearly $2.2 million for the 2006 fiscal year.
New Partnership Promises More Song And Dance For Philly Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is teaming up with the New York-based Shubert Organization in a new venture to bring touring Broadway shows to two venerable Philly venues.
The NEA Arts Journalism Institute (Oct. 15-28) is an intensive program of classroom sessions, meetings with leaders in the classical music world, writing workshops, and visits to performances at New York's top presenting venues.
www.artsjournal.com   (2055 words)

  
 Tufts E-News -- Arthur Mitchell
Mitchell began his dance training at New York City's High School for the Performing Arts, where he was the first male student to win the coveted annual dance award.
In 1969, with financial assistance from the Ford Foundation, Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, his teacher and mentor, founded and formally incorporated the Dance Theatre of Harlem as a school of the allied arts and professional ballet company.
He is an Honorary Patron of the Market Theatre Foundation in South Africa, a former member of the New York State Council on the Arts, and a former member of the New York City Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission.
enews.tufts.edu /stories/032603Mitchell.htm   (569 words)

  
 Fame DVD
At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation.
Intertwined the students learn their craft, have dreams, and come into realization that the arts may not be all the glamour they thought it was.
The extras in the movies are mostly students from the real high school and so there is some exceptionally beautiful modern dancing, music, and worthwhile performances.
classic-entertainment.com /B00008WJBF/Fame.shtml   (654 words)

  
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 Pupils at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City
Pupils at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City are seen training in ballet class and in modern dance class with teachers explaining step by step.
One boy and nineteen girls perform "Danza" choreographed by David Wood (who is also a modern dance teacher).
Creative Arts Television manages a large collection of filmed and videotaped arts footage from 1950 to date.
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 YouTube - Luka - Suzanne Vega
Later she attended the New York City High School of the Performing Arts (the school seen in the feature film musical Fame), where she studied modern dance.
While majoring in English literature at Columbia University's Barnard College, she performed in small venues in Greenwich Village, where she was a regular contributor to the Monday night songwriters group at the Cornelia Street Cafe.
She plans to go into the recording studios in the fall of 2006, with the aim of releasing a new studio album in early 2007.
www.youtube.com /watch?v=5TGEAbCclh0   (872 words)

  
 FAME -THE MUSICAL - North American Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After her family moved from the Virgin Islands to Orlando, Fla., the aspiring singer and dancer attended the High School for the Performing Arts in her new Florida home.
The school receives 15,000 applications a year, and fewer than 1,000 students are admitted.
David De Silva, known as “Father Fame,” is a native New Yorker with a background in education.
www.famenetwork.com /North-America.htm   (2115 words)

  
 Fame - Shop - madbad
That's what New York City's High School for the Performing Arts guarantees.
That's something the school's teenage musicians, actors, dancers and dreamers strive for.
Often mimicked but never bettered, Fame sings the body electric, celebrating the process of honing talent, confronting realities, finding love and living life.
pprfilm.com /show/fame   (145 words)

  
 Billy Dee Williams - MovieActors.com
Billy Dee Williams was born William December Williams in New York City, New York on April 6, 1937.
As a teenager, Williams attended the New York City High School of the Performing Arts.
Since the 1980's however, Williams' career has slowed a bit, with his recent performances including several TV shows [An American Dream (1992)], as opposed to the likes of the silver screen.
www.movieactors.com /actors/billydeewilliams.htm   (297 words)

  
 Welcome to York College - City University of New York, Jamaica, NY, USA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Welcome to York College - City University of New York, Jamaica, NY, USA
Jamaica, N.Y. York College, a senior college of The City University of New York (CUNY), offers baccalaureate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, accounting and business, communications technology, computer science, social work, teacher education and various health professions.
York College is the only CUNY senior college offering majors in gerontology, biotechnology, information systems management and a BS/MS degree in occupational therapy.
www.york.cuny.edu   (75 words)

  
 High School for the Performing Arts High School - New York,New York - Famous Alumni
High School for the Performing Arts High School - New York,New York - Famous Alumni
New York High School of Arts and Design
Tell us if we're missing a famous person from High School for the Performing Arts or for any other school.
famous-alumni.com /high_school_for_the_performing_arts_new_york_ny.html   (154 words)

  
 What is the musical "Fame" about? - Answerbag.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is based on a school that does exist in new york i think.
It is a performing arts high school, that you need to addition to get accepted.
irene cara was in it, and a bunch of people i can't remember, but i think that is the school, usher went to and eagle eye cherry, and prob alot of stars you see now.
www.answerbag.com /q_view.php/2845   (282 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! - Fame worth remembering
The show has more than its share of cliches and racial stereotypes.
A Hispanic student can't get his chops around Romeo because Shakespeare's Latin lover is not a Puerto Rican street kid, and of three fl characters, one is an illiterate break-dancer and another says things like, "Lord have mercy!" Presumably, that's the vision of New York-based creator David De Silva.
On the plus side, actors Sousa, Wiens and Stenekes are standouts in a solid cast.
jam.canoe.ca /Theatre/Reviews/F/Fame/2002/01/31/pf-741957.html   (172 words)

  
 Fame - The Musical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This high-energy show about New York City's High School of the Performing Arts has been labeled "the most inspirational musical of all time."
Italian can now be added to that list since the show opened in Milan in December, 2003.
In 2003, FAME was produced in New York City as FAME ON 42nd STREET.
www.stevemargoshes.com /htm/fame.htm   (251 words)

  
 Film Information
In Alan Parker's FAME, teenagers selected for New York City's High School for the Performing Arts push their talents to the limit to make it big in show business.
This episodic tale follows savvy Coco (Irene Cara), timid Doris (Maureen Teefy), gay Montgomery (Paul McCrane), macho Raul (Barry Miller), soulful Bruno (Lee Curreri), and others as they struggle to achieve their dreams of stardom while coping with the universal teenage problems of loneliness, insecurity, and embattled, mercurial identity.
The film, which won Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, overflows at each corner of its loosely unfolding narrative with inspired music and dance numbers that seem to burst forth spontaneously out of sheer irrepressible emotion.
www.cinemas-online.co.uk /films/fame.fhtml   (133 words)

  
 Classic TV & Movie Hits - Diahann Carroll
Biography: Diahann Carroll (born July 15, 1935) is an American actress and singer.
Born Carol Diahann Johnson in The Bronx, New York, she attended the New York City High School of the Performing Arts, along with schoolmate Billy Dee Williams.
Her first film role was in Carmen Jones in 1954, but her big break came when she became the first African American actress to star in her own television series in which she did not play a domestic worker, when Julia debuted in 1968.
www.classictvhits.com /cast.php?id=3705   (191 words)

  
 Playbill News: PHOTO CALL: Victoria Clark and Others Celebrate Their Drama Desk Wins
The 2005 Drama Desk Awards — the final pre-Tony theatre prizes given out each year — were dispersed among the various winners in a ceremony at New York City’s LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts on May 22.
Below, the Spamalot gang of David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria, Christian Borle, Casey Nicholaw and Michael McGrath are seen backstage at the Drama Desk Awards at LaGuardia High School, on Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street.
for more classical music, opera, dance and jazz news and features.
www.playbill.com /news/article/93103.html   (318 words)

  
 Lifetimetv.com: Movies - Danielle Steel's Message From Nam
Did you know: With six marriages under her belt, McClanahan has given Liz Taylor a run for her money.
Born: April 6, 1937, in New York City
Williams and Diahann Carroll were classmates at The New York City High School of the Performing Arts.
www.lifetimetv.com /movies/info/move0474.html   (172 words)

  
 Community School of the Arts :: Drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Full day students should please bring snack and lunch
Set in New York City’s celebrated High School for the Performing Arts, Fame charts the bittersweet story of the roller coaster ride of a group of talented, star-struck students from differing backgrounds and cultures.
Vibrant, exciting and inspirational, this ever-popular production will introduce you to drama, dance, song and set design.
www.csarts.org /camp_arts_institute.htm   (69 words)

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